With Mermaid's Protection in tow, Mashu Red-White Rose quickly led the envoy delegation out, preparing to travel to the Sapphire Grand Duchy to pay respects to the "brother-in-law" he had set his sights on.
In his view, sea demons could not unite with humans, while Liszt was of typical noble birth—though merely the son of a Count, he could still barely be considered among the ranks of great nobles. Such nobles shared one common attitude toward love: it had to be founded on mutual interests.
Other than a very few nobles, the vast majority placed family interests and personal interests first. This was the core of nobility under the knightly system.
"My sister Marilyn is the foremost beauty of the North and the Pearl of Iron Ridge. In the entire northeastern corner of the Legendary Continent, there is no woman more suited to be Queen of the Flame Kingdom... With a Dragon Knight who rides four dragons as my brother-in-law—and the King, at that—how glorious will my status become?"
At the end of the day, his eagerness to marry his sister off was chiefly for the sake of strengthening the Red-White Rose Family.
Since some unknown generation of ancestors, the Red-White Rose Family had understood the importance of clinging to a powerful thigh. Without that marriage alliance born of thigh-clinging, the Red-White Rose Family would have vanished into the long river of history long ago.
"No matter how powerful Liszt is, he cannot ride four dragons at once. Perhaps, once Marilyn becomes Queen, I too will have a chance to ride a dragon... The family's Ruby Dragon is simply too old, yet the Iron Ridge royal family refuses to let me ride any other dragon... Uncle Osborn, you are using the Red-White Rose Family for a marriage alliance, but isn't